The so-called Concession is returned to the Chinese. This does} not mean that there is any alteration in the Crown leases. It merely moans that the Chinese will police the roads round the foreigners' pro-party. There will be no Municipal Council, foreign or Chinese. All those clerks, all that organization, even the Commissioners and Superfintendents, who have ensconced! 50 comfortably. in the Buildings, will have to. 'Phe Municipal Property, buildings, tennis courts and gardens have been transferred the Kiukiang Club. 'The Municipal ' Buildings were built out of the ratepayers' were foreign the money foreign. The buildings con Tall, used for dances and cinema shows, three residential flats and some police quarters. The present lessors of the flats will continue to occupy them and the photograph. of Sun Yat-sen will come down from the tall and be replaced by the cinema screen. The police quarters will be'loaned to the Chinese police, of they require them. These quart: ers. are up-to-date and better thea anything' the Chinese have in their] own town.
For the looting which took place, $40,000 compensation will be paid.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.